PAIR OF CHINESE TERRACOTTA STANDING MUSICIANS - TL TESTED. Tang Dynasty, Ca. AD 618-907 A pair of female standing ladies. The figures are dressed in long dresses with a short-sleeved cropped overjacket, the outfits are painted with red and orange pigments, with their hair arranged in a high topknot. The standing figures are holding a water vessel and playing a panflute rspectively. Size: 330-330mm x 90-95mm; Weight: 2.31kg. Provenance: From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed before 2000 on the UK /European art markets. This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla.